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There have always been conflicts between black and whites, racial discrimination and a lot of prejudice. In the short story “Teaching Dance to Underprivileged Kids”, published in 1989, we meet Carrie, who is in deep conflict with her self she doesn’t know to handle the problem white against black. It’s a story about how other peoples opinion can control your mind and heart and effect your decisions. The twenty-two years old Carrie Lerner who is a brand new college graduate comes to a dance institute in Newark to teach underprivileged kids. She has just come from a paradise, so it’s such a big change for her to move to Newark where there are so many drugs and prostitutes, for that reason she is pretty nervous and doesn’t feel save here. It’s come to terms when she suddenly has a desire to run, and when she is holding tightly onto her two bags. The last sentence also shows that she doesn’t trust them. If we are looking at Carries school years and her upbringing, its easier to understand why she is so unaware of the reality and why she is so scared. She has been on a college where she has been teaching in liberty and equality, but now she realizes that it doesn’t go along with the reality.
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